Housing

A man (SDA Housing Organizer Ocean Coast) stands at a podium speaking into a microphone. Behind him, people are holding signs that say: “RV Safety”, “SFMTA Don’t Take Our Homes”, and “Family Housing Equal Opportunity Rights”.

SDA’s Housing Collaborative is a group of tenants, homeowners, SRO residents, and community advocates, working to preserve and create quality, affordable, accessible housing in San Francisco, by organizing to win change. Join us every 3rd Wednesday of the month, 1-3 pm. SDA’s Senior and Disability SRO Workgroup brings together residents of Single Room Occupancy hotels and coalition partners to stop speculation and improve living conditions. The SRO Workgroup meets the last Thursday of each month, 11am-12pm. To get involved with housing organizing at SDA, email itzel@sdaction.org or oceanbluecoast@sdaction.org.

Current and Past Campaigns

Extremely Low Income Housing Campaign

In 2023, we started working with Chinatown Community Development Center, Chinatown Tenants Association, and Faith in Action Bay Area to work on an issue we often hear from community members: affordable housing is not affordable enough. As a coalition we started thinking about a way to address the need for truly deeply affordable housing. In 2024, our coalition advocated and organized for a ballot measure for the city and county of San Francisco for the 2024 November Election, that would create housing subsidies for seniors, people with disabilities, and families who make under $35k per year. 

Our coalition has worked hard to make sure this measure addresses the needs of tenants who have not had their needs met in our current housing system. We hope that this measure is the first step of many to continue fighting for truly deeply affordable housing in San Francisco.

Senior Operating Subsidies

In 2019, our community came together to organize for a new program called Senior Operating Subsidies. We were able to successfully win funding for this program through the City of San Francisco! Through this program, seniors who would otherwise face the possibility of displacement, homelessness, and/or being rent-burdened, are able to age in place and live independently. This program has been a huge success, and the City of San Francisco has even received additional funding from the state to continue funding this essential program.